The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-19
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters OF Money and Management
About Various Lines,

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The accident that was reported at Cherry
Valley, Ga, on Sept. IL, was on the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
instead of the Western and Atlantic.
The Nashville, Florence and Sheffield rail
road company have made mortgage to the
Central Trust Company, of New York, for
$500, 600 for the completion OF the road
and branches and to pay bonded and float
ing debts.
There is a Tumor in Athens TO the effect
that Hon. James NJ. Smith has negotiated
lease of his convicts, and viii take them
from work on the Macon and Athens road.
The company is several months behind with
the contractors, and they are thoroughly
disguised with this unbusiness-like way of
doing business
Athens Banner Wdtchmdn. We learn
that for several days past the counsel for
the minority stockholders of the Northeast
ern railroad and Judge w. B. Thomas have
been in conference, looking TO a settlement
of the trouble. We are anxious that this
matter should be compromised, that Judge
Thomas might have an opportunity TO build
his road.
Eatonton Messenger: The Eatonton and
Gordon branch is in great need of freight
train and ought to have it at once. BY reason
of the hsavy freights the passenger train
has recently been arriving from an hour to
an hour and a half behind schedule time
The schedule as now operated is as..follows:
Train leaves at $50; arrives when it can
For some seasons past Eatonton has had a
freight train during the fall. We presume
she will have one this season. If so, the
time for putting it in force has arrived.
Major HOLSTER, OF the Blue Spring,
Orange City AMI Atlantic Railroad, was in
Tavares, Fla, Thursday He has been over
the route of the proposed extension of his
road, and Is greatly pleased at his warm re-
ception. He was in Tavares for the pur-
pose of consultation with Major St
Clair Abrams regarding a union of the pro-
posed extension of the B. s., o. c. & A.,
and the line projected from Tavares to Sen
eca via. Mount Dora. He says the citizens
of Eustis offer five miles of right of way
and $4,000 IT the line runs to that point.
Eustis, Fla, Semi Tropical. Work on
the Alabama Florida and Atlantic railroad
is still progressing, and we learn from good
authority that the line of the road from its
present point at Lake Joanna will be just
inside the corporate limits of Eustis, thence
across Eustis Meadows, on west of Umatlla,
through the village of Hampton, north of
Lake Yale, running within a mile or so of
Higley. This is to be the ultimate line, and
Surveyor Fries has his orders to make q
careful survey of this route, and is now so
doing So this is settled. Now for the next
enterprise.
The Rome railroad, running from Kings
ton to Rome, made its returns to the Comp
troller General Saturday. The returns
were made under protest, the official max
ing them stating that the legality of the tax
would be contested in the courts It is not
known upon what grounds the protest is
based. The road is taxed one-half of | per
cent. on its net earnings, and as its net earn
ings last year amounted to only 1920 IS, the
tax imposed will not be very burdensome
The property return of the road amounted to
Sll7, 1873 04, consisting of q road bed 10 1924
miles long, valued at SS5. 600, and Az acres
land; 10 trestles, IL depots, and tanks, 2 en-
gines, freight cars, passenger cars, rep
resenting the difference between the SS5. 200
and $1l7, 1873 o.. The road showing this
year is understood to be better than that.
Col R. A. johnson, General Manager of
the Three C.'s road, says that'there are now
in Camden, S. c., rails, fish-bar plates.
bolts, etc, to the value of S250,000, enough
to complete thirty miles of the track There
is also new machine brought from Chicago
for laying the track. 1t has not been
thought judcious to start track-laying until
a long stretch of the roadbed should have
been graded. In few days this will be
ready, and work will be begun. The ma
chine and the force of hands can lay two
miles of track day. but Col. johnson ex-
poets to average a mile a day, except in
cases of emergency. This will complete the
track laying to Lancaste. in a few DAYS.
and by Nov l trains will be running
through TO that point. The delay in grading
has been caused by the bad weather in
August, only eight days work having been
done in that month. The grading is ad-
vancing very rapidly between Lancaster
and Rock Hill.